Snowy Valleys Council has partnered with Destination Riverina Murray to allocate event funding support to local communities as part of the bushfire recovery process.

While debate around water policy continues, Bridge Hub is working on finding practical solutions to water problems in Australia and around the world, and it is starting by calling on people across Australia to help decide where to focus first.

Bridge Hub is an agrifood tech innovation hub for the Australian and global agri-food tech industry with offices in Wagga Wagga, Sydney and Israel. It has deeply established relationships in the well-established Israeli innovation ecosystem as it seeks to create commercialisation pathways to bring great ideas and research to market.

Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL) has announced its Black Summer Innovation Fund - providing $500,000 to support innovation in Australian food and agribusinesses impacted by recent events.

The Australian Regional Development Conference is seeking applications from industry professionals who are interested in presenting.

Share your insight on projects, developments or lessons learned in growing your regional area and facilitate connections to continue advancing your community.

Women’s Gathering weekends are organised by the host community for all rural women across the state supported by guidance and training from the NSW DPI’s Rural Women’s Network. Local committees make key decisions; develop a theme and the weekend program to reflect the culture, industry, tourism and environment unique to their community.

Small businesses affected by the bushfires in regional NSW are invited to attend an information session as part of the NSW Government's Bushfire Regional Roadshow. Government agencies will come together to share information on the kind of support available such as eligibility criteria for grants and disaster assistance for directly and indirectly affected businesses.

The NSW Government has appointed Laing O’Rourke to coordinate the clean-up of fire damaged residential and eligible commercial properties. This includes both insured and uninsured properties.

The clean-up of bushfire-impacted properties may include:

• Removal of known hazardous materials, including asbestos

• Removal of materials destroyed by bush fire and hazardous trees

• With consent of building owners, removal of concrete slab foundations.

The NSW Government will cover the full cost of council rates for people who lost their homes and small businesses in the bushfires.

The full cost of council rates will be covered for the next six months, which includes the third and fourth quarters of the 2019-20 financial year.

The state’s peak business organisation, the NSW Business Chamber, says the long term survival of many small businesses devastated by the bushfire crisis is reliant on local knowledge and tailored advice.

NSW tourism will receive a welcome boost through a Tourism Recovery package to encourage visitation to NSW, fund new local events and assist tourism businesses to develop, promote and sell their tourism products.

The first phase of the plan launches with a new community-driven campaign – Now’s The Time To Love NSW – urging travellers to book a getaway which gives back.

The NSW Business Chamber has launched its new campaign to help communities suffering from the impacts of bushfire and drought.

The campaign, Backing The Bush is a website where companies of all sizes can pledge their promise to hold a board, management or staff meeting in one of the impacted areas between now and the end of 2020.